The one reason that flash does not run on the iPhone is that a man with a black collar did not want all kind of flash games on his phone, he wanted to sell those games native from the app-store, and take a percentage on that.
Bullshit. More like: Adobe up to that point had been unable to deliver a usable mobile Flash, and in fact, years later, still had not, and in fact, years later completely abandoned the development effort.
ESPN, Bleacher report, Faebook, Hulu, steam trailers, pretty much every single news website, etc.
Care to guess what most of them do when your user agent does not report Flash as a supported format? (As does every single iPhone and iPad in existence...)
One of those two major corporations listed in the summary provides system encryption for their users to protect their data. They also can undo that encryption whenever they want to. A friend's Mac Book was set up to encrypt his data, and to make a long story short, when his employer needed access to it the local Mac store was able to turn off the encryption for them.
It works this way only if when you set up the encryption, you explicitly accept the option to generate a recovery key, and the option to store it with Apple.
The money that was loaned to Greece has been lost. The whole crisis is about everyone involved being unwilling to accept this reality and thinking that the money will somehow magically come back once the Greeks have been punished sufficiently.
Remarkable the extent to which economists agree with you and to which politicians disagree. Gee, I wonder who's right?
Most notably, in the last bailout plan, the IMF called for growth in the Greek GDP to top 4% within a few years, and that's what would allow them to pay back the debt. So, in a very short time, while constrained by harsh austerity measures and with no ability to use govt funds to stimulate any job growth, Greece was supposed to leap from the bottom of the EU to the top in terms of growth. Yeah, right, pure fantasy--devised to soothe the lenders that somehow, some way, their investments in Greek loans are not a lost cause and that they will soon profit from them, if only Greece will get its act together and mumble mumble mumble something.
The underpants gnomes had a better business plan;-)
No. The author has no idea what quantum physics is, and is using it as a magic wand made of pure bullshit. Uttering the phrase "quantum physics" is, of course, a pretty common and cliched way to sound impressive without knowing anything, but it demonstrates that the "honest intellectual inquiry" thing is just a disguise, and the professor is here to sell snake oil.
Remember this movie? The same kind of crock of shit. I actually had friends who were shocked that I refused to watch it; apparently I was close-minded for deciding beforehand (based on reviews) that it was worthless. Just as you and I are close-minded for refusing to consider the possibility that the author of that tripe you quoted might be on to something real;-)
Or not use any at all. Seriously, since Homeopathy means diluting a substance down to a level where it would be undetectable, how would you be able to tell the difference between two vials of homeopathic "medicine" where vial A was properly diluted and vial B was just plain water that never held any such substance?
You measure the residual quantum vibrations left behind in A, duh;-)
If you want students to have a critical lens, then teach them more rigor about the scientific method and drawing proper conclusions. Teach about flawed experiment designs, fabricated data, and the dangers of pay to publish journals.
Yes, and in this day and age, I really think homeopathy should be taught in in a class like that. But from the viewpoint you describe, so as to demonstrate that it is pure bunk.
If that were actually true that saving lives or keeping people safe were their true priority, they could be vastly more effective by spending their money on reducing the highway traffic fatality rate.
You must have forgotten about Samsung's own 2.5" 9.5mm 2tb HDD [amzn.to], which works in every laptop that I know of.
How the hell did I miss that??? I'm constantly watching for bigger drives for my laptop, because I actually need 2TB these days, and the only one I'd seen previously was 12mm.
There are a lot of laptops these days that only take a 7mm, but not mine, so I'm happy now.
It's the first time that max SSD capacity is greater than HD in a given size.
Yes, I know there's a 2.5" 2TB HDD out there. But it's a 12mm height, and so cannot be used in any laptop that I know of, including my older thicker MacBook, which takes a 9.5mm height drive.
This Samsung is a 7mm height, and thus will fit in any laptop that takes a 2.5" drive of any kind.
No kidding. $1500 per unsolicited call??? Sign me up! She is really "MAKE $20,000 PER MONTH FROM HOME!!!"
Sure. Find them, track down their info, hire a lawyer, invest months of your life. I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just saying it's usually a lot of work for a smallish payoff. It's very unusual that one company with a traceable location and actual ability to pay makes 100+ calls to the same person.
Of course they will. It's either that or they own a money printing press, right? I see this all the time: "they'll just pass the cost on to consumers". I'm at a loss to determine what you think the alternative would be.
Reduced profits. The theory is that in a competitive market, a company's ability to pass that kind of cost to their customers is limited by competition.
1) Of course they're going for drama, thus will focus on and magnify anything they can find that makes Jobs look "mercurial".
2) Is it true, what I read a couple of weeks ago, that in the movie the team that built the Mac is depicted as 8 men? If that is actually the case, the director and producer should dragged onto the back lot and shot. The team that built the Mac was 8 men and 4 women. Why on earth would they, in the year 2015, write the women out of the story???
The regular safety measures weren't in place because they were installing the systems, so most likely they had people working on different things and someone started testing their piece without realizing it was already connected.
Are you kidding me? No, it is most certainly NOT the first severe accident with industrial robots. Seriously, thousands and thousands of factories using them, why in the hell would anybody think for a second that accidents had never before happened??? I guess the submitter is so sheltered that he has no clue at all about what it is like to do physical labor in a place that makes actual things!
it would seem the defendant(s) would have a pretty good defense if they can show receipts for rework, notices of failed inspections, proof of injury to the daughter and the resultant investigation, etc
Absolutely correct. On the other hand, if, as the owner suspects, they have none of those things, they'd better try to settle as fast as they can!
If you by "figure out" means "google it" then sure, we definitely need more software engineers that tackle each problem they get with "let's ask google and cut and paste the first solution that compiles."
What I meant was that even if he had to be reminded of what w.x.y.z/m means, that from there he could figure it out on his own. After all, if you never work with networking, you could possibly forget which bits the/m applies to...
This makes as much sense as complaining that your car mechanic knows nothing about plumbing.
Bullshit. There's absolutely no excuse for someone with a CS degree not being able to figure out, on the spot, how to calculate the range of IPs for a given network, none whatsoever.
Black youth are given the same opportunities that every other youth is given.
Good lord, what a crock of shit.
They can attend public school.
Rundown, overcrowded, with severely stripped-down course offerings.
They can use the resources of public libraries.
Sure, if they want to take a long bus ride to a nicer part of the city where the libraries have not been closed.
They can better themselves and create futures for themselves, if they are smart enough to do so.
Smart enough, and persistent, and probably very lucky too. Sure, they can do that, but the point is why do we continue to accept that society makes it vastly more difficult? Shouldn't we strive to remove barriers, rather than add them? Shouldn't we provide at least basic, decent opportunities to people who are not "smart enough"???
They even get preferential treatment when it comes to college admission and many jobs.
Ah yes, that old complaint. Boo-fucking-hoo. (I think there's actually an argument to be made that the current system can be counter-productive here, and maybe it's time to start winding it down.)
When a black youth or adult decides to voluntarily get involved with a gang, ends up voluntarily committing crimes and finds himself in prison as a result, it's only his/her fault and his/her fault alone.
Yes, because clearly, at least in your little make-believe world, they had all sorts of great opportunities to get good-paying respectable jobs. Why heck, instead of joining the gangs they should have spent time at the local rec center--oops closed--or after-school programs--oops shut down--or gotten a part-time after-school job--oops no businesses hiring in their neighborhoods, except of course drug dealers.
The same thing happens to whites, Hispanics, Asians and Aboriginal Americans who engage in criminal behavior.
This is simply not true. White kids do not wind up with felony records for riding bicycles through a neighbor's back yard. White people can get away with so much more than black people that it's ridiculous.
It's not an "ongoing program to destroy their lives". It's a sensible system put in place to punish those who go out of their way to engage in overtly harmful behavior, not just once, not just twice, but often multiple times.
There is nothing remotely "sensible" about some of the so-called "crimes" and their punishments.
So put an end to your whiny nonsense about black youth being held back. They have many opportunities to create great futures for themselves. If they refuse to do so, then it is their faults and their faults alone.
That's a huge load of bullshit. (Of course, some of what I'm talking about here also applies to poor whites.)
I say this as somebody who is 3/4th black and 1/4th Hispanic, as well!
Well, good for you. You're a sheltered, entitled, judgmental, unempathetic black person telling all poor black people in this country "I got mine, you could have too, you lazy loser"! Congratulations, asshole!
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The one reason that flash does not run on the iPhone is that a man with a black collar did not want all kind of flash games on his phone, he wanted to sell those games native from the app-store, and take a percentage on that.
Bullshit. More like: Adobe up to that point had been unable to deliver a usable mobile Flash, and in fact, years later, still had not, and in fact, years later completely abandoned the development effort.
ESPN, Bleacher report, Faebook, Hulu, steam trailers, pretty much every single news website, etc.
Care to guess what most of them do when your user agent does not report Flash as a supported format? (As does every single iPhone and iPad in existence...)
One of those two major corporations listed in the summary provides system encryption for their users to protect their data. They also can undo that encryption whenever they want to. A friend's Mac Book was set up to encrypt his data, and to make a long story short, when his employer needed access to it the local Mac store was able to turn off the encryption for them.
It works this way only if when you set up the encryption, you explicitly accept the option to generate a recovery key, and the option to store it with Apple.
Replace the word "Flash" with any other plugin or technology that geeks don't like.
That argument does not hold, because Flash has been proven over time to be uniquely bad, and Adobe uniquely unable to fix it.
The money that was loaned to Greece has been lost. The whole crisis is about everyone involved being unwilling to accept this reality and thinking that the money will somehow magically come back once the Greeks have been punished sufficiently.
Remarkable the extent to which economists agree with you and to which politicians disagree. Gee, I wonder who's right?
Most notably, in the last bailout plan, the IMF called for growth in the Greek GDP to top 4% within a few years, and that's what would allow them to pay back the debt. So, in a very short time, while constrained by harsh austerity measures and with no ability to use govt funds to stimulate any job growth, Greece was supposed to leap from the bottom of the EU to the top in terms of growth. Yeah, right, pure fantasy--devised to soothe the lenders that somehow, some way, their investments in Greek loans are not a lost cause and that they will soon profit from them, if only Greece will get its act together and mumble mumble mumble something.
The underpants gnomes had a better business plan ;-)
No. The author has no idea what quantum physics is, and is using it as a magic wand made of pure bullshit. Uttering the phrase "quantum physics" is, of course, a pretty common and cliched way to sound impressive without knowing anything, but it demonstrates that the "honest intellectual inquiry" thing is just a disguise, and the professor is here to sell snake oil.
Remember this movie? The same kind of crock of shit. I actually had friends who were shocked that I refused to watch it; apparently I was close-minded for deciding beforehand (based on reviews) that it was worthless. Just as you and I are close-minded for refusing to consider the possibility that the author of that tripe you quoted might be on to something real ;-)
Or not use any at all. Seriously, since Homeopathy means diluting a substance down to a level where it would be undetectable, how would you be able to tell the difference between two vials of homeopathic "medicine" where vial A was properly diluted and vial B was just plain water that never held any such substance?
You measure the residual quantum vibrations left behind in A, duh ;-)
If you want students to have a critical lens, then teach them more rigor about the scientific method and drawing proper conclusions. Teach about flawed experiment designs, fabricated data, and the dangers of pay to publish journals.
Yes, and in this day and age, I really think homeopathy should be taught in in a class like that. But from the viewpoint you describe, so as to demonstrate that it is pure bunk.
If that were actually true that saving lives or keeping people safe were their true priority, they could be vastly more effective by spending their money on reducing the highway traffic fatality rate.
Ahem, look particularly at column 4, fatalities per 100,000,000 vehicle miles traveled.
This drive is not the first to break the 40 cents/GB mark.
Aren't you comparing street prices to list?
You must have forgotten about Samsung's own 2.5" 9.5mm 2tb HDD [amzn.to], which works in every laptop that I know of.
How the hell did I miss that??? I'm constantly watching for bigger drives for my laptop, because I actually need 2TB these days, and the only one I'd seen previously was 12mm.
There are a lot of laptops these days that only take a 7mm, but not mine, so I'm happy now.
It's the first time that max SSD capacity is greater than HD in a given size.
Yes, I know there's a 2.5" 2TB HDD out there. But it's a 12mm height, and so cannot be used in any laptop that I know of, including my older thicker MacBook, which takes a 9.5mm height drive.
This Samsung is a 7mm height, and thus will fit in any laptop that takes a 2.5" drive of any kind.
No kidding. $1500 per unsolicited call??? Sign me up! She is really "MAKE $20,000 PER MONTH FROM HOME!!!"
Sure. Find them, track down their info, hire a lawyer, invest months of your life. I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just saying it's usually a lot of work for a smallish payoff. It's very unusual that one company with a traceable location and actual ability to pay makes 100+ calls to the same person.
Of course they will. It's either that or they own a money printing press, right? I see this all the time: "they'll just pass the cost on to consumers". I'm at a loss to determine what you think the alternative would be.
Reduced profits. The theory is that in a competitive market, a company's ability to pass that kind of cost to their customers is limited by competition.
Haha.
Even if we accord at calling this "severe", severily impacting business is, well, "severe" at most, still not "terrible".
You do realize that hospitals, just for one example, are businesses?
1) Of course they're going for drama, thus will focus on and magnify anything they can find that makes Jobs look "mercurial".
2) Is it true, what I read a couple of weeks ago, that in the movie the team that built the Mac is depicted as 8 men? If that is actually the case, the director and producer should dragged onto the back lot and shot. The team that built the Mac was 8 men and 4 women. Why on earth would they, in the year 2015, write the women out of the story???
The regular safety measures weren't in place because they were installing the systems, so most likely they had people working on different things and someone started testing their piece without realizing it was already connected.
Yep. See second paragraph.
Are you kidding me? No, it is most certainly NOT the first severe accident with industrial robots. Seriously, thousands and thousands of factories using them, why in the hell would anybody think for a second that accidents had never before happened??? I guess the submitter is so sheltered that he has no clue at all about what it is like to do physical labor in a place that makes actual things!
but i think this is actually really well done, useful even
To the extent that I want to bookmark this, just for reference as to the tools he used ;-
it would seem the defendant(s) would have a pretty good defense if they can show receipts for rework, notices of failed inspections, proof of injury to the daughter and the resultant investigation, etc
Absolutely correct. On the other hand, if, as the owner suspects, they have none of those things, they'd better try to settle as fast as they can!
So it's strange they'd go straight to the courthouse, instead of just flagging the reviews for deletion?
One assumes the owner is tired of playing whack-a-mole with the person constantly posting fake reviews? (Lots of assumptions there, of course...)
If you by "figure out" means "google it" then sure, we definitely need more software engineers that tackle each problem they get with "let's ask google and cut and paste the first solution that compiles."
What I meant was that even if he had to be reminded of what w.x.y.z/m means, that from there he could figure it out on his own. After all, if you never work with networking, you could possibly forget which bits the /m applies to...
This makes as much sense as complaining that your car mechanic knows nothing about plumbing.
Bullshit. There's absolutely no excuse for someone with a CS degree not being able to figure out, on the spot, how to calculate the range of IPs for a given network, none whatsoever.
I knew I should have used the /s tag. Ah well.
Ah, I see I misread the antecedent of "that" ;-)
Black youth are given the same opportunities that every other youth is given.
Good lord, what a crock of shit.
They can attend public school.
Rundown, overcrowded, with severely stripped-down course offerings.
They can use the resources of public libraries.
Sure, if they want to take a long bus ride to a nicer part of the city where the libraries have not been closed.
They can better themselves and create futures for themselves, if they are smart enough to do so.
Smart enough, and persistent, and probably very lucky too. Sure, they can do that, but the point is why do we continue to accept that society makes it vastly more difficult? Shouldn't we strive to remove barriers, rather than add them? Shouldn't we provide at least basic, decent opportunities to people who are not "smart enough"???
They even get preferential treatment when it comes to college admission and many jobs.
Ah yes, that old complaint. Boo-fucking-hoo. (I think there's actually an argument to be made that the current system can be counter-productive here, and maybe it's time to start winding it down.)
When a black youth or adult decides to voluntarily get involved with a gang, ends up voluntarily committing crimes and finds himself in prison as a result, it's only his/her fault and his/her fault alone.
Yes, because clearly, at least in your little make-believe world, they had all sorts of great opportunities to get good-paying respectable jobs. Why heck, instead of joining the gangs they should have spent time at the local rec center--oops closed--or after-school programs--oops shut down--or gotten a part-time after-school job--oops no businesses hiring in their neighborhoods, except of course drug dealers.
The same thing happens to whites, Hispanics, Asians and Aboriginal Americans who engage in criminal behavior.
This is simply not true. White kids do not wind up with felony records for riding bicycles through a neighbor's back yard. White people can get away with so much more than black people that it's ridiculous.
It's not an "ongoing program to destroy their lives". It's a sensible system put in place to punish those who go out of their way to engage in overtly harmful behavior, not just once, not just twice, but often multiple times.
There is nothing remotely "sensible" about some of the so-called "crimes" and their punishments.
So put an end to your whiny nonsense about black youth being held back. They have many opportunities to create great futures for themselves. If they refuse to do so, then it is their faults and their faults alone.
That's a huge load of bullshit. (Of course, some of what I'm talking about here also applies to poor whites.)
I say this as somebody who is 3/4th black and 1/4th Hispanic, as well!
Well, good for you. You're a sheltered, entitled, judgmental, unempathetic black person telling all poor black people in this country "I got mine, you could have too, you lazy loser"! Congratulations, asshole!